I would think that the default color cycle would be (some variants of) ['blue', 'red', 'green', 'purple', 'orange']
like in the plot below:
Plot 1:
Code 1:
import plotly import plotly.express as px gapminder = px.data.gapminder() gapminder2007=gapminder.query("year==2007") px.scatter(gapminder2007, x='gdpPercap', y='lifeExp', color="continent")
At least that seems to be the order of the cycle since omitting Oceania
from the continents will give you this:
Now the order of the remaining colors are the same except for the last orange looking one (just showing that the application of the colors are not aribtrary).
I thought this would be possible to retrieve using plotly.colors.DEFAULT_PLOTLY_COLORS
which will give you:
['rgb(31, 119, 180)', 'rgb(255, 127, 14)', 'rgb(44, 160, 44)', 'rgb(214, 39, 40)', 'rgb(148, 103, 189)', 'rgb(140, 86, 75)', 'rgb(227, 119, 194)', 'rgb(127, 127, 127)', 'rgb(188, 189, 34)', 'rgb(23, 190, 207)']
But those colors are ordered like ['blue', 'orange', 'green', 'red']...
So, what color cycle does plotly express follow when setting for color="continent"
in px.scatter(gapminder2007, x='gdpPercap', y='lifeExp', color="continent")
?
I tried looking under help(px.colors)
too, but that didn’t give much:
Help on module plotly.express.colors in plotly.express:
NAME plotly.express.colors
DATA DEFAULT_PLOTLY_COLORS = [‘rgb(31, 119, 180)’, ‘rgb(255, 127, 14)’, ‘rg… PLOTLY_SCALES = {‘Blackbody’: [[0, ‘rgb(0,0,0)’], [0.2, ‘rgb(230,0,0)’… absolute_import = _Feature((2, 5, 0, ‘alpha’, 1), (3, 0, 0, ‘alpha’, 0…
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Answer
This doc page covers discrete color sequences: https://plot.ly/python/discrete-color/ and mentions that the default sequence comes from layout.colorway
in the active template.
In the default template called plotly
this is the sequence available under px.colors.qualitative.Plotly
.
This sequence is ['#636EFA', '#EF553B', '#00CC96', '#AB63FA', '#FFA15A', '#19D3F3', '#FF6692', '#B6E880', '#FF97FF', '#FECB52']